Glossary
Every profession has its own technical jargon, acronyms and abbreviations. Most websites have their fare share too, regardless of the topic. So this page provides a glossary of a few terms used on this site.
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BABCP - British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies
BPS - British Psychological Society
BA - Batchelor of Arts
BSc - Batchelor of Science
CHPCCP - Clearing House for Postgraduate Courses in Clinical Psychology
CPD - Continuing Professional Development
CSS - Cascading Style Sheets (language for styling web pages)
DClinPsyc, DClinPsy - Doctorate in Clinical Psychology
DCP - Division of Clinical Psychology (part of the British Psychological Society)
FAQ - Frequently Asked Question
GBR - Graduate Basis for Registration
GnuPG - GNU Privacy Guard (encryption software)
HTML - Hyper Text Markup Language (language for web pages)
HTTP - Hyper Text Transfer Protocol
IOP - Institute of Psychiatry
MSc - Master of Science
MSF - Manufacturing Science and Finance (union, now called Amicus)
NHS - National Health Service
NSF - National Service Framework
PDF - Portable Document Format (Adobe Acrobat)
PGP - Pretty Good Privacy (encryption software)
PHP - PHP Hypertext Preprocessor (server-side scripting language - PHP derived from Personal Home Page)
phpBB - PHP Bulletin Board (forum software)
PhD - Philosophiæ Doctor (Doctor of Philosophy)
PsyPAG - Psychology Postgraduate Affairs Group
RCPsych - Royal College of Psychiatry
RTF - Rich Text Format
SMG - Student Members Group (the British Psychological Society)
SSL - Secure Socket Layer (enables encryption over internet)
TCD - Trinity College Dublin
TLA - Three Letter Acronym 
UCD - University College Dublin
UCL - University of Central London
UEA - University of East Anglia
UEL - University of East London
X.509 - a standard for email encryption and authentication
XHTML - eXtensible Hyper Text Markup Language (language for web pages)
W3C - World Wide Web Consortium
WAI - Web Accessibility Initiative
Wiki - interactive web pages, editable by anyone
WWW - World Wide Web